1905. In 1908 Roosevelt sent battleships to visit Japan in a "muscle-flexing"# display of sea power. There was tension in California about the anti-Japanese racism so this is why he sent battleships. In the cartoon, Two Views of The President, it shows two different sides of Roosevelt. One side shows him as an uncivilized man and the other has him as a classy clean-cut man. On the uncivilized picture there is a dead bear skin on the wall that is being held by two guns. The bear is a symbol of his courage because it takes a great deal of courage to kill a bear. There is also an arrangement of hatches in the picture. This could symbolize his ability to survive on his own. There is also a statue of the Spartan which is symbolic of the strength of the warrior in Theodore Roosevelt. The feeling of war and survival are shown in the picture by items such as guns, knives and a cannon wastepaper basket. Also there are spurs in the picture which could be showing the power Roosevelt has, not only over his country but other countries. The other side of the picture has Roosevelt sitting straight up wear a suit. This shows Roosevelt’s seriousness of being president and the seriousness of his beliefs. All together the picture show the “Two Views of the President” which is his “strong side as a frontiersman, and his serious side as a world leader“#. Theodore Roosevelt wrote an essay called “In Cowboy-Land”. In this essay he shows his power as a frontiersman, which he took to the presidency. Roosevelt wrote about how wilderness can lead a man to kill another man. He said that these people are“man-killers” who were driven to kill by there surrounding conditions but they had good qualities about them. These people’s good sides are useless though after they murder a man. Theodore also goes into how the west is unpredictable. He states in one of his stories that a man was killed by his own horse th...
